Libros de Valerio Evangelisti (2 libros)

There is nothing so dangerous for a town in America as the disinterested love of the United States. Their protection is a fire necklace. Justo Sierra The Fire Necklace is an immense, astonishing novel, where the vibrant prose melts down with the historical erudition. Valerio Evangelisti has written a book difficult to put down once the reading has started; a book in which the reader's imagination keeps running boldly while memorizing and assimilating the homeland's past. It's the story of the Mexican XIX century as never before has been written; its connective threads are the contradictory...

Siamo nel 1683, due anni prima degli eventi narrati nel romanzo Tortuga . Il cavaliere Michel de Grammont, ultimo leggendario capo dei Fratelli della Costa che infestano il mar dei Caraibi, propone ai compagni un'idea folle: conquistare e saccheggiare l'imprendibile Veracruz.